Programming

Personally, I try to keep my development environment as convenient to use as possible and with the advent of BeyondCorp-style zero trust, more internal services are thankfully available without a VPN required. This makes it easy to access tooling from your mobile device and other places but it can also mean the line between work and personal blurs a little bit. A lot of my custom work-related configuration has been deprecated (utilities for wrangling VPNs and proxies) and I basically don’t maintain anything more than what was already open sourced.

In computer science, naming things is hard! When designing and naming the URLs structure, various questions and possible conflicts between the team members may arise. Let's see some practical suggestions for consistently naming our REST endpoints and representing the filtering, sorting, and pagination operations as URL query string parameters.

I recently had to discuss the issue on the impact of latency a few times, and I found the coffee cup analogy to be an excellent tool to explain exactly what ...

A balanced binary tree or a height-balanced tree is a tree in which the height of the left and right subtree at any node does not differ by more than one. Not just the root node, at any node. Mathematically we define using a balanced factor.

A common problem in programming language design is the question of what the type of integral literals should be, and if they are untyped, what the rules for implicitly converting them to regular integer types should be. This is part of the more general problem of how to handle having multiple integer types with overflow and the conversions between them. There are many approaches to this problem, but they all have significant downsides.

5 Minutes Project We are going to build a Telegram bot with python and deploy it to Heroku. The bot I am going to build will be able to send random pictures or videos of dogs using dog.ceo API…

More recent additions to the JavaScript language are async functions and the await keyword, added in ECMAScript 2017. These features basically act as syntactic sugar on top of promises, making asynchronous code easier to write and to read afterwards. They make async code look more like old-school synchronous code, so they're well worth learning. This article gives you what you need to know.

The async / await operators make it easier to implement many async Promises. They also allow engineers to write clearer, more succinct, testable code. To understand this subject, you should have a solid understanding of how Promises work. Basic Syntaxfunction slowlyResolvedPromiseFunc(string) { return new Promise(resolve => { setTimeout(() => { resolve(string)

Explains JavaScript Async/Await syntax and semantics with diagrams and examples ...

Explains program flow when using await in various scenarios

My housemate the other day asked me something to the effect of “How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is?”

A portion of the report ranks programming languages by their correlating developer salary. If you're looking to get paid well, it might be worth your time to learn Clojure and maybe not Dart.

Hey Everyone! I'm Shantnu, and I'm a 1x Programmer. I've been programming in Python for 10+ years, and yet I still forget how to use basic things like dictionaries and have to Google for itEvery time I open a file in Python, I have to Google what the parameters to

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How to represent data schema with JSON schema. Benefits of separating data schema from data representation in Data-Oriented Programming.

Enhancement of the Open Policy Agent Rego type checker did not support some keywords in the JSON Schema 2019-09 release. Now it does.

A How-To Guide on building a WebSocket version 13 client and server from scratch, explaining related RFCs and potential quirks and problems with other implementations.

I learned Java and C at school, I learned Python by myself and it was a relief. After 8 years working and doing side projects in Python and JavaScript (mostly web dev, Django/Flask/AngularJS/Vuejs), I am not satisfied anymore by the overall experience so I’m making Common Lisp my language of choice.I am not here to compare languages themselves, but their inherent workflow and their ecosystem. This is the article I wish I had read earlier, when I was interested in Lisp but was a bit puzzled, because the Lisp way always seemed different, and I couldn’t find many voices to explain it.

Go is regularly criticized for odd decisions and idiosyncrasies, while Rust is celebrated as an almost perfectly designed alternative that solves Go's problems. But in fact, Go and Rust are far from interchangeable.

This tutorial describes how to use the InfluxDB Go client library, create a connection to the database and store and query data from it.

Picking the right performance testing tool can be a challenge. We compare and contrast Locust and Speedscale in this blog.

Low-code app development is here, and thanks to the rise of work from home over the past couple of years, it is here to stay.

How to write self-documenting code. Best practices, tips, and tricks to write code that doesn't require documentation.

LispWorks is a Common Lisp implementation that comes with its own Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and its share of unique features, such as the CAPI GUI toolkit. It is proprietary and provides a free limited version.Here, we will mainly explore its IDE, asking ourselves what it can offer to a seasoned lisper used to Emacs and Slime. The short answer is: more graphical tools, such as an easy to use graphical stepper, a tracer, a code coverage browser or again a class browser.

An algorithm is a straightforward rule of action to solve a problem or a class of problems. Algorithms consist of a finite number of…

Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted Backend-as-a-Service that aims to make app development easier with SDKs available in a variety of…

There's a well-known quote by author Michael Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I like it because it doesn't attempt to be dogmatic: it encapsulates some basic guiding principles that get you 90% of the way there 90% of the time. Wikipedia describes the book the quote is from (emphasis mine):